ORGANISATION / ABOUT
About
We're a collective intelligence research organization working on how groups coordinate and make better decisions.
We build new systems - voting mechanisms, organizational structures, coordination tools - while developing the theory to understand them. And we use the same principles in our own research process.
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ORGANISATION / REGISTERED NONPROFIT
Non Profit
Equilibria Network is a registered Swedish nonprofit association that provides the legal structure for the research network and operates this website.
PUBLIC RECORD / LEGAL HOME
The association gives the research network a durable public identity and accountable stewardship while leaving the work itself open to cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Legal name
- EQUILIBRIA NETWORK
- Legal form
- Swedish nonprofit association
FIELD NOTES / HOW WE WORK
Philosophy & Culture
Research moves through relationships. The network connects theory, experiments, and live organisational problems. We work across disciplines because coordination failures rarely respect the boundary of a single field.
We partner with existing organizations.
The theory develops from what we're seeing in practice.
We engage in interdisciplinary dialogue.
We've structured ourselves as both a focused research team and a broader network to make interdisciplinary collisions more likely, creating more surface area for useful accidents.
We assume someone already solved our problem, just in a different field.
We read across disciplines - game theory, cybernetics, information theory, organizational behavior - looking for patterns that repeat across contexts.
We test things on ourselves first.
When we discover something about how groups work better, we implement it in our own processes before suggesting it elsewhere. This has changed how we run meetings, make decisions, and share information.
We take play seriously.
Mammals evolved it as a learning mechanism. Time for exploration alongside execution, permission to pursue unexpected tangents, explicit switching between modes.
Make the implicit explicit.
We make things explicit that usually stay implicit - what good work means here, how we make decisions, what we do when we disagree. Building shared language as we go.
CORE TEAM / ACTIVE PRACTICE
Team
The people building Equilibria Network.
TEAM / Director
Jonas Hallgren
Jonas directs Equilibria's research architecture and operations. His work focuses on multi-agent coordination and active-inference approaches to AI safety, drawing on experience as a collective-intelligence startup's Chief Scientific Officer and on research-programme design through SERI MATS, the Distillation for Alignment Practicum, and the Alignment Mapping Program.
TEAM / Technology and Communication Lead
Markov Grey
Co-founder of Equilibria Network, Markov leads technical operations and communication. He is currently Head of Technical AI Governance at CeSIA, designing harmful-manipulation evaluations for the European Commission's AI Office, and works with Epoch AI to translate research into policy-accessible explainers. Previously, he contributed to the AI Safety Atlas textbook, wrote scripts for Rational Animations, and worked in cybersecurity and software development.
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Advisors
Expert guidance from across disciplines.
Intelligence Rising
Aaron Halpern
Co-founder of Equilibria Network and Chair of the Board. Now Game Design and Research Lead at Intelligence Rising, with a PhD from University College London and a background spanning interdisciplinary research, systems design, and early-stage technical startups.
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Oxford University
David Hyland
Postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University under Michael Woolridge working on bounded rationality and incentive design in multi-agent systems
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Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF)
David Norman
David Norman was the Managing Director of the Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF) between Nov 2023 and Feb 2026, and is currently a board member for London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA).
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Jobst Heitzig
Senior Scientist and Working Group Leader at PIK, leading the Behavioural Game Theory and Interacting Agents group. Researches climate policy, complex networks, and tipping elements through the lens of game theory and nonlinear dynamics.
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Partner Organizations
Collaborating to advance collective intelligence.
OPEN INVITATION
There are several ways into the work.
Start with the route closest to your own practice: a coordination problem, the research programme, or the working notes we publish as the inquiry develops.
FIELD / PRACTICE
Bring a coordination problem.
PROGRAMME / RESEARCH
Trace the programme.
NOTES / UPDATES